loa 



Endracht's 

 Land. 



SiiarksBay- 



Sea Snakes, 



AVOSETTA* 



Kangaroo. 



NEW rr O L L A N D. 



tween a duller of iflands. From Rofemary illands, a difcovery 

 of his in Lat. 20° 50', the land turns foutherly. Endrachfs Land, 

 liesjuft under the tropic of C^^nVor;?, difcovered,. according to ^ 

 lIawkeJ'UOort}f% map, in 1616. 



Dirk Hartog iilands and Sharks bay are in Lat.. 25°. The. 

 land fo high as to be feen nine or ten leagues diftant. It bore 

 neither flirubs or trees- above ten feet high. The prognoftics of 

 the approach of land v/ere a fort of grey tern as big as a lap- 

 %ving, and like that bird flapping its wings. The eyes encircled 

 v/ith black, the bill red, the tail forked.. 



Sea fnakes appeared in great abundance ; one fpecies was four 

 feet long, yellow, with a flat tail, four fingers broad. 



The other was fmaller, and round, fpotted with black and yel- 

 low. Dampier faw others very long and llender, others as thick 

 as a man's leg, with a red head. This reminds me of the fpecies 

 defcribed by Arrian, in his Peripbus Maris Erytbroei, to which, 

 he gives black fkins, and blood-red eyes. I dare fay his account: 

 is juft, only his informer confined the color, of the head to the 

 eyes. 



On land was an Avofeita with the head and neck red ; and a 

 fea pie exa6tly refembling ours, only thofe parts were totally 

 black. 



Dampier^f alfo difcovered a fpecies of Kangaroo^-Sin animal with 

 very Ihort fore legs, v>^hich it went jumping on;- but Yns Guano 

 was an horrible animal, too difgufting even for him to eat, who 

 had been ufed to food of all fortSy,as fnakes^ alligators, and cro- 

 codiles, fo offenfive was this in look and fmell ; his defcription 

 is fo forcible, that we may well give him full credit. "At the 



* Voy; iii. p. 85, 



^ rump, 



